Word: neapolitan
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...tragic kidnaping and murder of former Premier Aldo Moro. Appearing on national television last week in the midst of World Cup soccer telecasts, white-thatched President Giovanni Leone, 69, a 34-year Christian Democratic political veteran and two-time former Premier, informed his "fellow Italians" in a heavy Neapolitan accent that he was resigning from the presidency...
...monopoly on banditry−bandit being of Italian origin−and that kidnaping is as much part of the Italian scene as opéra bouffe. (The great master of English opéra bouffe, W.S. Gilbert, was kidnaped as a baby in Naples−an event both Neapolitan and Gilbertian.) And it is true that it has traditionally been hard to think of Italy as tranquil, law-abiding, prepared to solve its problems through calm discussion and the slow process of democracy. Italy is a very new democracy, and its citizens distrust democracy as they have always distrusted more...
...Tempest concerns the passengers and crew of a Neapolitan ship wrecked on a seemingly deserted island, and the deposed duke who brought them there by sorcery. Reality is suffused with magic, and by the end of the play almost all of the characters have trouble distinguishing reality from illusion. This splendid confusion provides a perfect setting for avant-garde theater, in countless scenes where bizarre happenings become the norm. Thus the multiplication of leads is justifiable, even if it does not really work. The triumvirate of directors makes an honest stab at bringing elements of dance and mime into...
Guccione has his office in an expensively tacky off-Fifth Avenue mansion in New York City, full of mirrored walls, oversized candelabra and a gilded piano that Liberace might envy. The furnishings look as if they came intact from a Neapolitan bordello, but they actually came from Judy Garland's estate, as did the house. Guccione, in well-coiffed hair, is obviously more concerned with his own appearance than his apartment's: he wears a shirt open to his hairy chest, against which bobble necklaces of large gold medallions. No one believed him seven years ago when...
...usually a bad idea to argue with De Laurentiis' instincts. They have served him well for 57 years. The son of a Neapolitan pasta manufacturer, he quit school at 13 to work as a salesman for his father, gravitated to movies first as an actor, then-quite quickly-as a producer. Eventually he produced Fellini's first two international hits, La Strada and Nights of Cabiria, stealing a portion of the latter's negative to prevent the director's including a long monologue that De Laurentiis was convinced slowed the picture down...